, 1887-08-07
The MORAL WAVE.
The Anti Chicago Committee Inter-
views Mayor Riner.
They Demand That City Ordinances
Be RigidIy Enforced.
A Meeting To Take Final Action
Called for Next Week.

Called for Next Week.
The anti. Chicago committee, consisting
of Messrs. Talbot, Taylor, Thompson
and Murphy, called on Mayor Riner yes
terday afternoon. Mr.. James Talbot
opened the session by stating the object
of the visit, and inquiring on behalf of
residents of the Third ward if his honor
would be kind enough to enforce section
8 of an ordinance OF the city of Chey-
enne, providing for the suppression OF
houses of i'll fame and the prosecution of
owners of houses who rent them to ten
ants of i'll repute. He was followed by
Messrs. Taylor and Murphy, who spoke
in about the same strain, the mayor occa
~sionally sandwiching in a sentence when
there was a favorable opportunity. His
honor's replies evidently did not conform
with the ideas of the delegation. and
MIR. Jas. Talbot, who acted as chairman
of the committee, arose. and in the
course of a rather incendiary ~harangue,
insisted that the mayor give a direct and
deciding answer to the question pro-
pounded, stated that yes or no. would
be amply sufficient, and iutimating in
conclusion that time was valuable and
that forbearance had ceased to be a vir-
tue; that in case relief was not received
from the proper channel, the city govern
ment, the residents of the Third ward
would take the matter into their W
hands.
Mr.. Talbot has, so he says, and Jas.
Talbot is a reliable mar always, lived at
the corner of Nineteenth and O'Neil
streets for twenty years. During the past
five years houses which he owns in that
locality have remained idle a greater por-
ton of the time for want of respectable
tenants.
Mayor Riner answered the committee
in substance that he was causing the ordi-
nances to be enforced in the manner
in which he considered conducive to the
best interests OF the community. If any
member Of the committee, or any resi-
dent of Cheyenne. felt aggrieved at any
specific violation of the particular ordi-
nance in question, it was plainly his or
duty, he said, to make a formal and
legal complaint. He would see, he add.
ed, that all formal complaints of that
character would receive proper considera-
ton from himself and officials under his
control. After considerable healthy grum-
bling the committee announced that they
would report the mayors decision to
their governing body, and retired appar-
emily greatly dissatisfied.
The nti-Chicago convention recon
vened at $3.50 o'clock last evening at the
usual place of meeting.
The committee which had been APP
pointed the previous evening to wait
upon Mayor Rlner reported the result of
thei r expedition as stated above. The
re port was placed on file.
Stirring addresses were made by G. W.
CLARK and others, c%ondemning the action
of Mayor Riner and proposing that as the
clty's executive official refused to consider
their protests and demands, they force
him to do so. They had, one of the gem
tlemen asserted, secured the best available
legal advice upon the subject and were
confident that they would ultimately sue
coed in bringing the matter to a direct
issue.
The meeting adjourned until next
Thursday evening at $50 o'clock. In the
meantime a call will be issued, requesting
all citizens who reside west of Eddy street
and who are interested in the matter to
be present.
Section S of an ordinance concerning
misdemeanors, etc., which has been fire.
quentlY referred to, and to which the
committee called the attention OF Mayor
Riner, is too lengthy for publication in
these columns. 1t provides that inmates
of houses of ill repute, frequenters or
owners of the same, are liable to a fine of
less than $40 nor more than 800, or
thirty days imprisonment. The section
concludes with a clause providing that it
shall apply to all persons who possess a
general reputation of abiding in a house
of i'll fame.
Sections 9 and 10 of the city charter
mention among other duties of the mayor
the following, which are applicable in the
matter under consideration: He shall
have experimenting control of all the
officers and affairs of the city, and shall
take care that the ordinances of the city
are complied with" The mayor shall
be active and vigilant in enforcing all
and ordinances for the government
of the city"
Commissions Issued.
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